Written on November 30th, 2005 at 10:11 pm by Darren Rowse

ProBlogger Labs Gets an Upgrade

ProBlogger Site News 23 comments

After a five week wait I got the call last night from my friendly Apple Mac sales guy to tell me that my new PowerMac had hit the shores of Australia and that it would be ready for me to pick it up this morning.
So this morning I trotted into the Apple store and took […]

Written on November 30th, 2005 at 09:11 am by Darren Rowse

20 Type Challenge

Pro Blogging News 7 comments

Just got an email from the blogger behind It’s So Fantastic! who liked my 20 Types of Blog Posts post so much that she’s decided to start a 20 Types challenge where she’s going to take one ‘type’ of blog post each day for the next 20 days and post something that fits with it.

What […]

Written on November 30th, 2005 at 07:11 am by Darren Rowse

Start Writing the Middles of your Post - Battling Bloggers Block

Writing Content 8 comments

Blog Tip 19. Start writing the Middle of your Post

If you’re anything like me, one of the hardest parts of writing a post is starting it. Introductions can be easy to get stuck on and so I often simply skip them completely and write the meat of the post first before going back to write […]

Written on November 29th, 2005 at 05:11 pm by Darren Rowse

Google Firefox Referral Program goes International

Adsense 20 comments

Google have widened the availability of the Firefox referal program to now include international publishers. They announce it as follows on their What’s New page:

‘International publishers can now refer users to Firefox plus Google Toolbar through the AdSense referrals feature. As you connect your users with Firefox to improve their web browsing experience, you can […]

Written on November 29th, 2005 at 01:11 pm by Darren Rowse

Blog Values - How Much is your Blog Worth?

Pro Blogging News 36 comments

Jeremy just emailed me a link to an interesting article by Om Malik at Business 2.0 exploring some of the recent sales of web publishers. Of particular interest to me is the analysis of what the acquisition price was on a per user of the sites sold (I’m presuming that it’s daily users/visitors - although […]

Written on November 29th, 2005 at 10:11 am by Darren Rowse

20 Types of Blog Posts - Battling Bloggers Block

Writing Content 50 comments

Blog Tip 18 - Change up your posting form - find new blog topics - In the same way that it’s easy to get ’stuck’ in always posting in the same voice - it’s also possible to get stuck in always writing in the same form or genre.

Yesterday I decided to look through a the […]

Written on November 29th, 2005 at 08:11 am by Darren Rowse

New Perspectives inspire Fresh Content

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 4 comments

Shawn emailed me to tell me about a post he’s written Bloggers Block where he simply moves his desk and finds that it gives him a fresh perspective.
Share This

Written on November 29th, 2005 at 03:11 am by Darren Rowse

Six Figure Blogging Course - Home Study Version Released

Pro Blogging News 11 comments

I’ve been getting emails every day for the past few weeks from people asking when the Home Study version of the Six Figure Blogging course that Andy Wibbels and I ran a couple of months back will be available. Well the time is here.

Andy’s been working his butt off on getting transcripts finished and putting […]

Written on November 29th, 2005 at 02:11 am by Darren Rowse

Change your Blogging Voice - Battling Bloggers Block

Writing Content 4 comments

Blog Tip 17. Write in a different voice

It’s easy to get bored and stale with one tone of writing so it might be worth mixing it up occasionally and experimenting with a new voice.

While you don’t want to do this all the time (it’s important to establish a voice and develop some consistency in a […]